search function

[ashwanichauhan1]

Dear friends
a very small queation. I am trying to search "."(dot) in a string which is an IP address through search() function in java script but it is not returning me right index. How to do it .

The code is as follows :
var IP = "10.0.1.140"
var index= IP.search(".")

it is always returns 0

Regards ashwani

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[saddysans]

First of all javascript is different from java. There is a seperate forum for javascript.
For your question.
use
indexOf() function, se the link for detail
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/ref_h-l.htm#360

[websmith99]

saddysans is correct. Use the indexOf() method.

Also, you should not declare a variable with the name "index" as that is a reserved word in JavaScript.